About Rocket's Fight for Fair Housing

How a Deposit Dispute Spiraled into a Legal Case Around Retaliatory Eviction, Falsified Documents, Mass Distribution of Personal Images Without Consent, and Legal Process Designed to Exhaust, Leading to the Birth of the Housing Justice Audit.

In August 2025, following a retaliatory eviction notice, we were forced to move during a severe heat wave. Thrust into chaos, Rocket ended up trapped under a couch for hours, whimpering in the dark, confused and terrified.

That whimper was the sound of a broken system.

The Crisis: Industrial Extraction vs. Human Dignity

Charleston is facing a housing crisis, but the root cause is a crisis of consciousness. Too many Property Management Investment Corporations (PMICs) operate on an "Industrial Age Extraction" model. They treat:

  • Tenants as disposable widgets.

  • Homes as mere asset classes.

  • Accountability as a cost to be minimized.

When we asserted our legal rights, the system responded with retaliation rather than remediation. They expected us to go away quietly. They were wrong.

The Mission: Conscious Stewardship

We are fighting to replace this extraction model with Conscious Stewardship: a management philosophy that designs systems from the "outside-in." We believe that secure shelter is the foundation of human dignity, not just a profit center.

This campaign is a live "stress test" of that principle. We are using Strategic Thought Leadership frameworks - the same ones the retaliatory eviction killed the growth path of - to document, map, and challenge the power asymmetries that allow corporate landlords to crush vulnerable families.

Why This Campaign Cannot Lose

Most litigation is a gamble: you win damages or you lose everything. RocketsFight is designed differently. This is an "antifragile" campaign where every outcome drives systemic change:

  • If we win in court: Justice is served, and a legal precedent is set for tenant rights.

  • If we lose despite overwhelming evidence: We expose exactly how the system is rigged against pro se tenants, driving legislative reform.

  • In every scenario: The documentation survives. The methods are shared. The playbook is given freely to future tenants and advocates.

The "Triple 24" Investment

We are raising $24,000—representing $1,000 for every "dog year" Rocket fought his blindness—to fund this systemic intervention.

Your support doesn't just pay legal fees. It funds:

  1. The Fight: Direct litigation costs to hold these entities accountable.

  2. The Framework: Developing open-source legal templates and strategy guides for other tenants.

  3. The Future: Promoting the Conscious Stewardship model to property owners who want to do better.

Join the Shift

The defendants have "24 years of experience" in the old system. We have the truth, the documentation, and a better model for the future.

Rocket deserved better. Sharky (our puppy) deserves a future where this never happens again. And so do you.

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